“Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, is demanding that lawmakers report income they make from outside jobs as part of an ethics overhaul. In response, Republican lawmakers say it's only fair to require officials to file disclosures including the finances of domestic partners such as Lee, a successful TV chef and author.”
http://news.yahoo.com/tv-celeb-sandra-lee-pulled-ny-legislative-ethics-225547313.html
From my bookshelves.
“About 40 percent of the United States food supply (1,500 calories/ person/day) goes uneaten. Discarded food in homes and foodservice accounts for 60 percent of this total food loss and is mostly avoidable. The remaining portion is lost or wasted during food production.” Food Reflections. I’ve been subscribing to this newsletter for over 15 years. It’s from Extension at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
I looked at the list of 14 things we can do at home, and have been doing 13 of them (I don’t compost ) and I’m sure I still waste food.
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I’m a little mixed on this message. Any business should be responsive to the stockholders. If the company can’t earn a profit in a black neighborhood, it shouldn’t be there. However, the CEO should stop being such a hypocrite about race.
Police were called to a home by a family. While the officer was taking the report about their being threatened, the perp showed up with a gun and tried to shoot the officer. The intruder was shot and killed. Race of either hasn’t been released. If the criminal was black and the officer white, we’ll hear more. If not, we’ll have to search for more information on the outcome. If Al Sharpton shows up with a busload of Soros sponsored trouble makers, that should tell us something.
http://www.nbc4i.com/story/28581173/officer-involved-shooting-on-citys-north-side
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/03/22/officer-kills-man-on-north-side.html
This past week has seen the outrage generated by parents of donor and invitro-fertilization children following a now-infamous Panorama magazine interview conducted with the fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana, wherein Domenico Dolce proclaimed, “You are born to a mother and a father — or at least that’s how it should be. I call children of chemistry, synthetic children.” Immediately, Elton John advocated a boycott of the designers’ products in retaliation for the perceived offense against his two sons, who were conceived via an egg donor and surrogate mother.” http://www.npr.org/2015/03/16/393403211/elton-john-declares-boycott-against-dolce-gabbana
In another story a young woman named Heather wrote about how much she loved her mother and her partner (a lesbian couple), yet longed for her father. On the internet you would think she had suggested lynching them even though she wrote of fond memories with her mother’s lesbian friends and gay sponsored events. Children of other disrupted families are allowed to grieve, why not children of gay couples, she wonders. http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/17/dear-gay-community-your-kids-are-hurting/
A black liberal media personality, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capeheart, in an op-ed apologized this past week for reporting on the Ferguson story before he had all the facts—particularly the “Hands up don’t shoot,” and I’d be surprised if he isn’t fired by Monday. It’s rare for any news journalist to sincerely apologize, liberal or conservative. He should be commended, not condemned. Just ask Juan Williams of Fox who was fired by NPR. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/03/19/hands-up-dont-shoot-did-not-happen-in-ferguson/
And my goodness, don’t even get started on the high STD and HIV rates among transgendered male to female persons. They are really messing with the stats for women. I’d be surprised if studies will continue to be reported in JAMA. It’s a tiny segment of the population with a huge problem. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/transgender/
And if you point out the high abortion rate for black women (about 38% of black pregnancies in NYC are aborted), then you are a racist—even if the government reports on it first. I know this from personal experience when I posted the information on Facebook and was dropped by a liberal for being racist. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_07.pdf
Truth is a casualty when ideology is the goal. There was a time, even in my life time, when liberal was a proud word—stood for being open and tolerant to new ideas and exchange of information. Now it means one must desire and vote for more government control and concede to the current culture or be called a hater.
The original copyright for my Singer Sewing Book is 1953. It has similar pithy words of wisdom.
“UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio - At least seven homes were destroyed or damaged Saturday when a house exploded in Upper Arlington. The explosion was reported around 2:45 p.m. at a home on Sunningdale Way in Upper Arlington.
According to firefighters, a Columbia Gas employee was investigating an earlier report of a gas smell at the home at the time of the explosion.
A mail carrier told NBC4's Dan Pearlman that he reported smelling natural gas in the area around 11:30 a.m.
Tremont Road is closed near the OSU Golf course. NBC4 crews reported seeing debris from the explosion as far away as West North Broadway.” NBC TV local
We heard the boom, but had no idea what had happened until it was reported on the news. It could be felt as far south as Grandview and all the way into Clintonville.
Columbus Dispatch photo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lELXynhbS84
This is what a leader in our times sounds like. If you search his name in the upper left search window, you can find quite a few entries about him over the last few years.
I’m listening to a lecture (while riding my exercycle) on how the pagans were evangelized in the early church. Now that Christians are being killed for the faith in larger numbers than the first century, it’s a good message to hear. It wasn’t Facebook, Twitter and rock concerts, for sure. In some ways it is more difficult today. He mentioned how many popes were killed. Tough job! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV_MsGUzN_I#t=1547 Don’t miss the final minutes of the talk where Steve Ray meets his neighbor in the judgment. Story of Steve Ray.
“The full list of popes from Peter up through John Paul II, including many mentioned as martyrs, is found in I Sommi Pontifici Romani, Annuario Pontificio, and the iconography of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. A secondary source, Liber Pontificalis or "Book of the Popes", adds "crowned with martyrdom" for half a dozen of the first 33 popes not specifically identified as martyrs in the primary sources. Several other popes are traditionally said to have been martyred, according to the Acts of the Martyrs and other sources of unknown authenticity.
Someone please tell our president. Someone please give him a map.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192865#!
Of course, he misread the Arab Spring and thought Yemen was our big success. He’s got Muslim Brotherhood advisors in the White House. He pulled our troops out of Iraq allowing ISIS to rush in. He drew lines in the sand and did nothing. He never says anything about the most persecuted group in the world—the Christians, and didn’t see any anti-Semitism in the Jewish deli incident in Paris.
Shelby Steele’s book, Shame. Reviewed by Joseph Epstein
“Liberalism in the twenty-first century,” Mr. Steele writes, “is, for the most part, a moral manipulation that exaggerates inequity and unfairness in American life in order to justify overreaching public policies and programs.” This liberalism, which is not your Aunt Bessie’s liberalism but the liberalism that came into play at the 1972 Democratic convention that nominated George McGovern, “is invested in an overstatement of America’s present sinfulness based on the nation’s past sins.”
Mr. Steele argues that liberalism’s efforts to alleviate the past injustices done to blacks in America have amounted to another botched project of that famously failed political construction firm, the Good Intentions Paving Co. “Liberalism,” Mr. Steele writes, “expresses its inborn racism in the way it overlooks the full human complexity of blacks—the fact that they are more than mere victims—in order to distill and harden the idea of their victimization into a currency of liberal power.”
Liberals, Mr. Steele holds, deal in what he calls “poetic truth.” This is a kind of truth “conceived in reaction to the great shames of America’s past—racism, sexism, territorial conquest (manifest destiny), corporate greed, militarism, and so on.” In poetic truth, the world is reduced to victims and victimizers, with liberals alone innocent of evil and thus excluded, by self-dissociation, from the role of victimizers. Under the realm of poetic truth, Mr. Steele explains, the race riots of the late 1960s could find justification and the feminist slogan “woman as nigger” could be taken seriously, while “fifty years of real moral evolution in America” can be entirely ignored.”
No one wants to be someone else’s “good deed project,” whether in a 3rd world country or urban non-profit.
FOIA says otherwise. He goes against the law set up for presidents, then claims to be transparent. Even his supporters know he is lying, but they don’t care.
The most divisive president in the U.S. history calls another world leader “divisive.” Blinders. Ear plugs. Give the man some duct tape for his mouth.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/18/obama-netanyahu-israel-election-white-house
Richard (far right) and his siblings Karen, David and Julie
Kids don’t “need” designer clothes, Etsy outfits, brand new everything, more shoes than they can wear before they grow out of them, and 8 thousand of whatever the latest toy craze is. (I believe it’s currently Shopkins, but I might be a week behind the times. It’s so hard to keep up.) Kids don’t need a play room full of more toys than they know what to do with. (I’ll go one step further with this one. They don’t even want it. It’s stressful and overwhelming for them. But anyways.) Kids don’t “need” to be signed up for a different so-called enrichment class every night of the week. They need sunshine, fresh air, freedom to move, and space to create.
Truth. http://thishouseisourhome.net/2015/02/25/kids-arent-expensive-but-that-other-thing-sure-is/
I was going to leave a comment at her blog—great photos and thoughts—but she already had about 600, so she doesn’t need encouragement. She’s a really good “mommy blogger.”
Today adult adoptees born between 1964 and 1996 were able to legally apply for their accurate birth records. It took much too long.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/03/20/adoptees-line-up-birth-records.html
Starting today, thousands of Ohio adoptees whose birth records had been sealed by law are now free to request the files that contain their original birth certificates.
Applications were being submitted in droves this morning at the Ohio Department of Health Vital Statistics Office.
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